We had a long night waiting for our flight to Melbourne. We had to check in at 3.30am and our flight was at 6.35am. We didn't think there was much point in going to bed so we were just going to go to the airport late and try and sleep there for a bit, the problem was that Christchurch airport closes at night until 3am! And the hostel wouldn't let us wait around until 3am for our shuttle so we had to pay $19 each for the pleasure of sitting in the dusty TV room with a rather strange lady making strange noises in the corner.... The flight to Melbourne was fine though, we both slept the whole way and arrived, a bit bleary eyed, to sunny Melbourne! We queued up to get through customs and
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